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Whenever I learn something cool, I get this itching desire to tell someone about it. But as it turns out, I don't have to ...

A stone wall that lies nearly 70 feet underwater and stretches for more than half a mile on the floor of the Baltic Sea some six miles off the German coast appears to be the oldest known structure in ...